A Season of Gifts
10 best books like A Season of Gifts (Richard Peck): Al Capone Shines My Shoes, Blue Willow, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, Rabbit Hill, Cosmic, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, Wild Things, The Winter Room, Full of Beans
Al Capone Shines My Shoes
| Author | Gennifer Choldenko |
| ISBN | 0803734603 |
Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. It's 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done...
| Author | Doris Gates |
| ISBN | 0140309241 |
To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm...
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
| Author | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| ISBN | 0763615781 |
Step back to medieval 1255 England and meet 22 villagers, illustrated in pen and ink, inspired by the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript, an illuminated poem from thirteenth-century Germany.
Hugo, the lord’s nephew, proves his manhood by hunting a wild boar. Sharp-tongued Nelly supports...
| Author | Robert Lawson |
| ISBN | 0142407968 |
It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the animals of the Hill are very excited about the new Folks moving in, and they wonder how things are going to change. It's only a matter of time before the animals of the Hill...
| Author | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
| ISBN | 1405054646 |
Liam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. And his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster - or be offered the chance to drive a Porsche. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for...
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0439668182 |
A dramatic, witty Civil War tale from bestselling author Rodman Philbrick
Master storyteller Rodman Philbrick takes readers on a colorful journey as young Homer Figg sets off to follow his brother into the thick of the Civil War. Through a series of fascinating events, Homer's older brother...
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
| Author | Kristin Levine |
| ISBN | 0399250905 |
The last thing Harry "Dit" Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper -talking, brainy Emma doesn't play baseball or fish too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the differences between black and white. But soon Dit is thinking about a whole lot more when...
| Author | Clay Carmichael |
| ISBN | 1590786270 |
Stubborn, self-reliant eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, is forced to move to the country to live with her strange and bad-tempered uncle. Zoe could care less that he's a famous doctor and sculptor. All she knows is that he is impossible to understand. The only interesting thing on the farm is...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0440227836 |
This book reminds me of the washcloth that my dad used to clean himself when we ran out of toilet paper, but that's a good thing.
I re-read this from time to time just to remind myself of simpler times. The good old days when I used to run the wood splitter with my dad, or clean out septic tanks with him...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0553510398 |
Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise is beloved by readers, and now they can return to this wonderful world through the eyes of Turtle’s cousin Beans.
Grown-ups lie. That’s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest...
The True Meaning of Smekday
| Author | Adam Rex |
| ISBN | 0786849002 |
It all starts with a school essay.
When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens...
The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family
Really good book which doesn't quite fit the genre, at least not as you probably anticipate. There's a very compelling comparison of Abraham and Aeneas in the first half, and the second half gives a good explanation of "household" (oikonomia) and a very interesting reading of Ephesians with that perspective....
